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Name: LEONIDAS launched as ROB ROY
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 26/10/1912
Launched: 30/10/1913
Completed: 08/08/1914
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 832
Dimensions: 965disp - 1003disp, 260.0 x 27.0 x 9.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Geared, 24500shp
Engines by: Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 29.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
08/08/1914 British Royal Navy
09/05/1920 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Laforey Class of destroyers
Order was subcontracted from Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd
30/10/1913: Launched as ROB ROY
09/05/1920: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd at Hayle
10/1922: Broken up
NOTE: Some sources have this vessel as built by Hawthorn Leslie


Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

The Times, Friday, 31/10/1913